James Irwin

web dev @Apple

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

Learning = observation + imitation

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

@Actualwebutante

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

@paularambles It’s gd cold! My guy it is July

[tomie @tomieinlove]

(SF driver): the moat’s not taste—it’s attention. the future is agentic agents

(Me): that’s it, I’m done [jumps out of uber, hitting homeless woman]

(Homeless woman): hi! new to sf, here’s an intro—i’m mildred, 2x umich dropout, former @AIatMeta, 1370 SAT, building in public

[う @makasete_ne]

エントロピー増大則を教わったとき、「宇宙は放っておくと散らかる方向に進むのに、私たちは体を修復したり情報を整理したりしてこの宇宙の法則に抗っていて、それが生きているということで、抗った痕跡は記憶や文化や言葉となって宇宙に残る」という説明を受けたのをずっと覚えている

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

This is an insane paper and I love it

https://t.co/DP8OR5NJf2

[dax @thdxr]

i have seen enough proof now that using a coding agent is a deep skill

it's confusing because the people you see heavily using them produce horrible results

but that's because it's a skill! you can get better and the ceiling seems pretty high - this is very exciting to me

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

a madlibs style excuse generator. `Sorry for the delay, ${my|a|one|several|some} ${NOUN} ${PAST_TENSE_VERB} my ${NOUN}.`

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

It’s good to periodically prompt your chatbot about something you know exceptionally well, just to remind yourself that it doesn’t know what it’s talking about.

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

Last vibe flow worked really well. Yesterday/today got a fastAPI app up on Google Cloud Run. It figured out the session cookie we need from site we want to hit, got docker image from 414MB to 82MB, gave exact commands for me to deploy. Still unreal

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

As always, the disciplined approach feels slower and is faster.

[effectfully @effectfully]

@sudo_goreng Writing good tests requires more skill than writing good code. Really. But people don't understand that and so focusing on tests isn't a good career move, you'll be pretty much invisible.

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

@latentspacepod @simonw @ankitxg "The agent implements. The BDD framework verifies" is doing a lot of work here, we can't have the spec be separate from the program, bc we can't trust LLM to interpret "Then they receive an email with a reset link" correctly and write `sendEmailSpy.calledWith(...)`

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Philosophising is fine, but have you tried imposing your will on reality?

[Jared Palmer @jaredpalmer]

i am extremely bullish on the people who configured webpack between 2015 and 2017

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

tried this out, seems cool. with my first message I got a glimpse into the mind of an overthinker

[Maziyar PANAHI @MaziyarPanahi]

it's crazy what a 1.5B model can do these days!

"VibeThinker-1.5B is a 1.5-billion parameter dense language model. With a total training cost of only $7,800 USD, it achieves reasoning performance comparable to larger models like GPT OSS-20B Medium."

runs perfectly on device!

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

my hobby is collecting technical infrastructure arcana

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

@slicknet you can even use it to add syntax highlighting to code snippets https://t.co/3Oa4zyyeFh

[James Irwin @rebolyte]

@ByrneHobart ok wait this is incredible.